This paper presents reflections on the conference “Critique, Democracy and Philosophy in 21st Century Information Society. Towards Critical Theories of the Information Society” that took place at Uppsala University from May 2nd-4th, 2012. About 160 participants attended the conference. It featured 15 plenary talks in seven sessions, 15 paper presentation sessions organised in 5 slots that each had 3 parallel sessions. The conference was financially supported by the Swedish Research Council and organised by Uppsala University’s Department of Informatics and Media, the ICTs and Society Network (http://www.icts-and-society.net), the European Sociological Association’s Research Network 18: Sociology of Communications and Media Research (http://www.europeansociology.org/research-networks/rn18-sociology-of...), tripleC – Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society (http://www.triple-c.at), the Unified Theory of Information Research Group (UTI), Aarhus University’s Department of Information and Media Studies, the Vienna University of Technology’s Institute for Design & Assessment of Technology, and Jönköping University’s School of Education and Communication.

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tripleC: Open Access Journal for a Global Sustainable Information Society

Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data CapitalismFuchs, Christian 2019. Karl Marx in the Age of Big Data Capitalism. in: Chandler, D. and Fuchs, Christian (ed.) Digital Objects, Digital Subjects: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Capitalism, Labour and Politics in the Age of Big Data London University of Westminster Press. pp. 53-71

Theorising social media, politics and the state: an introductionTrottier, D. and Fuchs, Christian 2014. Theorising social media, politics and the state: an introduction. in: Social media, politics and the state: protests, revolutions, riots, crime and policing in the age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube New York Routledge. pp. 3-38

Anonymous: Hacktivism and contemporary politicsFuchs, Christian 2014. Anonymous: Hacktivism and contemporary politics. in: Trottier, D. and Fuchs, Christian (ed.) Social media, politics and the state: protests, revolutions, riots, crime and policing in the age of Facebook, Twitter and YouTube New York Routledge. pp. 88-106

Class and exploitation on the internetFuchs, Christian 2013. Class and exploitation on the internet. in: Scholz, T. (ed.) Digital labor: the internet as playground and factory New York Routledge. pp. 211-224

Critique of the political economy of web 2.0 surveillanceFuchs, Christian 2012. Critique of the political economy of web 2.0 surveillance. in: Fuchs, Christian, Boersma, K., Albrechtslund, A. and Sandoval, M. (ed.) Internet and surveillance: the challenges of web 2.0 and social media New York Routledge. pp. 31-70